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UK PM vows to put ‘Britain’s interest first’ in Trump ties
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Spain fights to ‘save lives’ as wildfires rage near Madrid
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Rome to offer free movies for heat-relief
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France records 5,700 excess deaths in June heatwave
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Too late for new Brexit deal
French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that there was not enough time to wholly rewrite Britain’s Brexit divorce deal before an Oct 31 deadline.
22 August 2019
UK gives fund for victims of Chalantika slum fire
The UK government has allocated £102,625 to support those affected by the fire at Chalantika slum in Dhaka’s Mirpur area recently.
21 August 2019
Johnson Brexit letter offers no alternatives to Irish backstop
EU yesterday rejected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demand to scrap the Irish border backstop plan to achieve a Brexit deal, saying he had offered no workable alternative.
20 August 2019
Russia, China warn of new ‘arms race’
Russia and China yesterday warned that a new US missile test had heightened military tensions and risked sparking an arms race, weeks after Washington ripped up a Cold War-era weapons pact with Moscow.
20 August 2019
Italy PM Conte to resign as crisis comes to a head
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte yesterday said he would resign, lashing out at far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for pursuing his own interests by pulling the plug on the government coalition.
20 August 2019
Recall parliament to tackle crisis: Labour
Britain’s parliament needs to be recalled immediately to discuss Brexit, the opposition Labour Party’s finance spokesman John McDonnell said yesterday, after leaked official documents forecast possible food, fuel, and medicine shortages.
19 August 2019
Canary Islands fire out of control
A wildfire raged out of control on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria yesterday, forcing more evacuations as flames in some parts rose so
19 August 2019
Polish rescuers search for two trapped cavers
Polish rescuers said yesterday they are still searching for two men who became trapped in a mountain cave last week when their corridor to
19 August 2019
UK faces food, fuel and drugs shortages in no-deal Brexit
Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked to the Sunday Times show.
18 August 2019
4 killed in Romania hospital attack
Four people have died and nine were injured after being attacked by a patient in a psychiatric hospital, Romanian press reports said yesterday.
18 August 2019
New wildfire forces evacuations in Spain
Authorities on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria were set to evacuate more residents yesterday as a forest fire broke out just days after
18 August 2019
Ukraine hotel fire kills nine
Nine people were killed in a hotel fire in Ukraine’s port city of Odessa yesterday, leading authorities to launch a country-wide inspection of safety regulations in holiday resorts and hotels.
17 August 2019
Small protests in Moscow for free elections
Russian opposition activists held small one-man protests in Moscow yesterday to demand free elections, as the wave of the Russian capital’s larger demonstrations took a breather this weekend.
17 August 2019
Key wildlife meet eyes to toughen trade rules
Amid growing alarm over accelerating extinctions, a major international conference opened in Geneva yesterday aiming to tighten rules on trade in elephant ivory and other endangered animal and plant species.
17 August 2019
9 killed in Ukraine hotel fire
Nine people are killed in a hotel fire in Ukraine's port city of Odessa, leading authorities to launch a country-wide inspection of safety regulations in holiday resorts and hotels.
17 August 2019
Boost for UK PM Johnson
President Donald Trump on Thursday again signalled his desire for close trading ties with Britain once it leaves the European Union, saying a “fantastic” deal was in the works.
16 August 2019
Russian pilot hailed hero after crash landing
A Russian pilot was being hailed as a hero for landing an Airbus carrying more than 230 people in a Moscow corn field after a bird strike.
15 August 2019
Scientists find micro plastic in Arctic ice
Tiny pieces of plastic have been found in ice cores drilled in the Arctic by a US-led team of scientists, underscoring the threat the growing form of pollution poses to marine life in even the remotest waters on the planet.
15 August 2019
Norway detects radioactive iodine near Russia border
Norway’s nuclear safety authority said yesterday it detected tiny amounts of radioactive iodine in a region bordering Russia after an explosion at a Russian missile testing site.
15 August 2019
Labour vows to delay Brexit
Britain’s opposition Labour Party has vowed to call a vote of no-confidence in Boris Johnson’s government as soon as it believes it can win it and seeks to form a temporary government under leader Jeremy Corbyn to delay Brexit.
15 August 2019